Martindale,Don <br/><br/>
The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory 

 - 2nd ed. 
 - USA  Waveland Press,INC 
 - xv,656p.  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes Bibliography and Index 
<br/><br/> This is Volume XI of twenty-two in a series on Social Theory and Methodology. Notions are widespread that sociological theory is either an industrious activity on the drawing boards of the architects of fantasy or a branch of esoterics operating in a shadowy realm of semi-darkness. The present study holds neither of these conceptions of sociological. The present study’s function is to illuminate the difference between one theory and another. The power and reliability of a theory are not always evident all at once. A theory may have a power to explain what was not originally anticipated; it may also disclose the existence of problems it cannot explain. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0881333530 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social Science / Methodology, -- Social Science / Sociology / General, Sociology -- History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM 19 MAR 1981